Adding MIPS support to GOLD

[David Daney]

Rick Mann wrote:
> What would it take to add MIPS support? We work on a large embedded 
> platform (designed in-house) that uses both ia32 and MIPS. Our builds 
> take FOR-E-VER, and linking is a big part of that.
> 
> I have no idea what's involved in targeting a new architecture. How hard 
> is it?
> 

I was thinking about looking at MIPS support, however I think it may be 
a bit complicated.  The Multi-GOT support is something that does not 
exist for x86, so it would be completely new.  The rest (having not 
looked at the gold source code yet), I think would be mostly straight 
forward.

David Daney